Wednesday, August 21, 2013

I've found a few inspiring pieces of reference for this week's Illustration Friday word. My son found a HUGE bug on our front porch this weekend: The Eastern Hercules Beetle, the largest beetle in the USA at a full 2 inches or more. The other piece of reference was finding a photo of those obese Osaka Zoo monkeys that were all over the net a couple of years ago... they crack me up. I merged the two pieces together into a prehistoric or other-worldly scene inspired by a classic Frank Frazetta pyramid layout. Power in the primordial soup...
Digital Ink done in Corel Painter 11, Color is done in Photoshop CS6 on the Wacom Cintiq.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

FezBaby - about 10 hours of carving. I've been using the chainsaw, but have resorted to chisels to to much of the inside edge details for items like the building block letter-forms, the baby's face and fingers. I also have been using my offset grinder with a 40 grit sanding disc to make the baby's skin smooth. It wouldn't be much of a baby if it weren't smooth.

Pencil Sketch

This is around 5 hours in, if you count the drawing. You can see how rough it is with the saw marks on the face. It really did need the sanding disc applied, as seen in the video.